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I'm a Mechanical Engineer turned IT Professional . I came into the Information Technology world because someone challenged me to. But at heart, I'm still a grease monkey with no desire to lose touch with the nuts, bolts and wrenches I left behind. I picked up 3D Printing when I first saw the Printrbot SimpleMetal. It gave me the opportunity to learn something that merged intangible software code with physical objects. My initial attempts at making prototype parts for my 1923 Model T street ro...
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I'm not very sure. Maybe a different hot end would have a better design that would prevent this from happening.That said, this still happens to me. The problem in my case is that the extruder at the top grips the filament very tightly (which is required for the filament to be fed into the hot end). When I leave the filament in the printer, the point where the extruder had gripped the filament breaks as soon as the extruder gear rotates - which is a lesser thing to worry about because you can stop the print immediately. But sometimes the weakened spot feeds into the Bowden tube and then breaks near the extruder causing issues.One preventative fix would be to completely unload the filament out of the printer after the printer is done printing and the printer is idling for many days befor...

I'm not very sure. Maybe a different hot end would have a better design that would prevent this from happening.That said, this still happens to me. The problem in my case is that the extruder at the top grips the filament very tightly (which is required for the filament to be fed into the hot end). When I leave the filament in the printer, the point where the extruder had gripped the filament breaks as soon as the extruder gear rotates - which is a lesser thing to worry about because you can stop the print immediately. But sometimes the weakened spot feeds into the Bowden tube and then breaks near the extruder causing issues.One preventative fix would be to completely unload the filament out of the printer after the printer is done printing and the printer is idling for many days before prints. It's a lot easier to feed the filament into the printer than it is to deal with this problem. I hope this helps.

Going back to your comment from 2016, I did make the effort to go back and learn tinkercad.I have designed many number of parts over the last month I began learning the software and also published a few designs. thanks!

Nope. That is because the TV is a fixed piece of hardware. Unless we can hack something into the TV that can help the tv communicate back to the hub, then it would be possible for the UI to display a message that the tv has been manually turned off.

A quick clarification - I'm working on something similar, but I need to roll with a different set of Pins for Tx and Rx as opposed to Pins 12 and 13 mentioned in your IBLE. Reason being, these 2 pins are already taken up by an SD Card reader on my ESP8266 12-E. But if I use a different set of Pins for my GPS, I can't seem to get it working. It works only with pins 12 and 13.Any ideas on what other Pins on ESP8266 would work with the SoftwareSerial library?

Hi Moses, Sorry to hear that you're having issues. This isn't unexpected. I use Windows 10 and have researched several other firmwares'. NodeMCU for example didn't work for me whilst Mongoose OS and Arduino did without skipping a beat! I'm still trying to determine if Windows 10 is the reason why NodeMCU didn't work for me. You may be having a similar problem. Have you tried an alternate firmware?

As of now my assumptions on code management was limited to my personal dev environment. For a broader use, more improvements have to be incorporated.Thanks for the leads!

I've been thinking about this a little bit. Let's suppose I put in the code to connect to the Wifi network inside the library. It means that I have to include the header file that actually makes the WiFi connection into the library. This would make my library too "esp8266 specific".What if I want to use this custom library with another processor? Is my reasoning correct?

This was a 10 minute solution. More improvements to follow.I have another home automation project to complete and didn't want make a long detour in the process of setting this up.I'm also looking into how I can incorporate encryption around the Wifi credentials.Thanks for the suggestions! :-)

And it's done! The buttery taste with the Oregano worked just right!Carried the leftovers for lunch the next day and they were awesome!Next time I have to put in a little more pepper powder to build up a bit of heat.Overall it was a hit with the family!

This turned out delicious! We are a bit on the hot and spicy side. Therefore I used Chicken breast tenders as it was better suited to go with noodles.We cut the sweetness of the chicken with the hot spiciness of vegetable noodles. The peppers came from our home garden.

For the camera I used, I never ran into this issue. 9 months now, and the system is working without any issues.But these camera products have a timeout setting that may need to be changed in your setup. One helpful link to visit would be:http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/12321/getting-correctly-exposed-photos-and-the-right-shutter-speed-for-the-rpi-camera

This is awesome! Years ago when Tesla displayed it's platform at a showroom in a local mall, I came to know from the people there that the entire frame, suspension and drivetrain comprised of approximately 168 components.Electric cars are truly open source, but to make them road worthy, the safety features and certifications required will need to be figured out by we the common folks!Great project! Someday, I will need to give this a shot!

Awesome! I have added this to my favorites. Will give it a shot. Years ago, I had cooked Rosemary Chicken (and then lost the recipe somewhere along the way). My younger son loves Rosemary. Maybe this will be a good one to try on a weekend. Throwing in a super sweet Port Wine on the side to go with this chicken will make it one super combo. Question: I'm thinking of using smaller organic chicken thighs. How much time would it take to cook in the oven?Thanks,andy

Thank you! I used Tinkercad for sometime. But, I feel that I have to retrain myself to go through the extra step of imagining what kind of shapes I have to intersect to generate a certain kind of geometry, or a part. Hoping to find the time to do it sometime.